Her manner to him was so gentle and gracious that Mrs. Gibson became alarmed, lest, in spite of his 'uncouthness' (as she was pleased to term it), he might come to be preferred to Osborne, who was so strangely neglecting his own interests, in Mrs. Gibson's opinion. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)
The story is vaguely compelling, shot through with occasional snatches of uncouthness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the email, Bourne, 60, from Dawlish, Devon, apparently rebukes Withers, 29, for her behaviour during a visit to the family in April, which she describes as "staggering in its uncouthness and lack of grace". ❋ Unknown (2011)
She saw but what she chose to see, and she chose always to see the best, avoiding coarseness and uncouthness without effort, as a matter of instinct. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Bruno doesn't know why he learns so quickly - "My father never quite lost his touch of aboriginal uncouthness" - but under the tutelage of an autistic janitor and a very liberal-minded cognitive psychologist named Lydia Littlemore, he emerges from his "prelapsarian nudity" and enters the world of conscious thought, "the awesome thaumaturgy of mere language." ❋ Ron Charles (2011)
The way they looked at her made her uncomfortable, she knew not why; while there was an uncouthness and roughness about them that did not please her. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Oliver went to the front door to welcome him and brought him into the kitchen, where his urbanity, like Oliver's, at once understood the inner worth, ignoring the outer rustic uncouthness, of the third individual at the table. ❋ Allie Dresser (2010)
Thomas Campion, in 1602 or so, came out with an attack on the uncouthness of rhyme, which was very strange for him to do because he was one of the great lute-song writers of the day. ❋ Nicholson Baker (2009)
Rather than a well-dressed martyr disgusted by the general uncouthness in Washington, why can't we have an updated version of the '70s hero? ❋ Unknown (2008)
Indeed, to Western observers, Falun Gong public relations carried some of the uncouthness of Communist party culture: a perception that practitioners tended to exaggerate, to create torture tableaux straight out of a Cultural Revolution opera, to spout slogans rather than facts. ❋ Michael Turton (2008)
Based on the knowledge above and the utter ignorance and uncouthness of Bush, I believe that hereafter all other presidential candidates undergo the same types of psychological and educational testing as the people who apply for civil service jobs (who are required to take various tests to determine their ability to perform the job) do. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The figures are immensely large, and exaggerated to the utmost pitch of uncouthness; the colouring is harsh and disagreeable; and the whole effect more like (I should imagine) a violent rush of blood to the head of the spectator, than any real picture set before him by the hand of an artist. ❋ Unknown (2007)
She had, in truth, discovered, underneath the crust of uncouthness and meagre articulation which was due to their Troglodytean existence, that her unwelcomed daughters had natures that were unselfish almost to sublimity. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And the clumsy figure of the man plodding at the head of the leading horse projected itself on the background of the Infinite with a heroic uncouthness. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I laugh at it as it reflects the uncouthness of Chavez in all its vulgarity: he walks in and he knows better than the folks at if for over a decade. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Alas! poor Goldsmith! how much of this silken finery was dictated, not by vanity, but humble consciousness of thy defects; how much of it was to atone for the uncouthness of thy person, and to win favor in the eyes of the Jessamy Bride! ❋ Unknown (2004)
